Chapter 270: The Terrifying Laughing Demon (Part 1)

In DC comics, there are many origins of the Joker character. At first, before the Joker became popular, he was just an ordinary circus performer, that is, a real clown.

Later, there was a version of falling into a chemical pool. Of course, the most famous one is the Joker of the Deadly Joke. As long as anyone has a bad day, he will become a madman like the Joker.

Among them, the most controversial is the setting of having three clowns in a universe. In this setting, the Joker is no longer the only character, and the three clowns begin to kill each other.

Putting aside those attractive gimmicks, it is possible to have multiple clowns in a universe. After all, what Gotham lacks the most is madmen, and some of them are just crazy. It is not impossible to imagine themselves as a crazy clown.

On the first night Schiller came to Gotham, he confirmed that there should be multiple clowns in this universe, because on this night, the personality that controlled his body underwent a certain degree of mutation.

At first, this change was not obvious, but when Bruce appeared in front of him and looked at him, Schiller became one of the chosen clowns. Therefore, Bruce was interested in him, and he was also interested in Bruce. This was the inevitable mutual attraction between Batman and the Joker.

Schiller soon noticed this change, and his "superego" created another personality to replace Schiller the Joker, and threw Schiller the Joker into the lower level of his mind palace, letting him climb up level by level, in order to suppress the danger that this crazy personality might cause.

The evolution of the Joker is irreversible, so this personality eventually became one of the multiple Jokers, but because he was trapped in Schiller's mind palace and had not climbed up yet, he was not harmful for the time being, but he was indeed a Joker.

When mentioning the Joker, we have to mention another controversial character, that is the Batman Who Laughs.

When this character first appeared, his origin story was very interesting, that is, the Joker in a certain universe had amazing fighting power. He not only killed Catwoman, Gordon and other people who were very important to Batman, but also captured the parents of all the only children in the city, and replayed the tragedy that happened in Crime Alley in front of Batman again and again.

This inhumane behavior eventually drove Batman crazy. He broke the Joker's neck with his own hands, but at the same time, the Joker's laughter virus infected Batman.

In other words, the Laughing Bat is actually a combination of the Joker and Batman. So far, the story can be regarded as a very creative plot, because many DC viewers have thought about what would happen if the Joker and Batman merged into one?

But later, this setting began to go further and further away. In order to show how powerful the combination of Batman and the Joker is, the screenwriter began to unscrupulously add many settings to the Laughing Bat that can raise his status.

Among them, one of the settings that most destroys the story and DC comic style is that the Laughing Bat has no omissions.

In fact, both Batman and the Joker have very high intelligence settings, especially Batman. As a planner, he has backup plans to fight against almost everyone, and the implementation process of the Joker's crazy jokes one after another also reflects his wisdom and execution ability beyond ordinary people.

In order to show the effect of one plus one is greater than two, the screenwriter makes the Laughing Bat almost omniscient and omnipotent. Unfortunately, the plot that shows this ability can be called far-fetched. The plot of the Laughing Bat's battle of wits can basically be summarized as: the Laughing Bat predicted something the other party did, the other party predicted that the Laughing Bat predicted something he did, and the Laughing Bat predicted that the other party predicted that he predicted something the other party did...

In short, I predicted your prediction, I predicted your prediction, I predicted your prediction of my prediction, and then infinite nesting dolls.

Therefore, here, I have to solemnly introduce to you——

The crazy destroyer of DC's combat power restraint system, the super dragon Aotian in the American comic setting, the God of wisdom with amazing intelligence and combat power but never forgetting his original goal and his simple wisdom, the great sage prophet who is always one step ahead and almost never fails but just does not do his job, the soul mate of Zhuge Kongming, the close friend of Edogawa Conan, and the only designated father of the DC editorial department - the Batman Who Laughs, Wei Yixiao!

Before, some people always joked that Mr. Bat is the father of the DC editorial department, but now, Wei Yixiao's setting has let people know that the editorial department is probably just Robin adopted by Batman, and the real father has just appeared.

You can't say that the character setting of the Batman Who Laughs is not good, because its origin story is indeed very interesting, satisfying many fans' fantasy about the relationship between Batman and the Joker, but as the setting is supplemented more and more, and the plot is getting more and more outrageous, the character of the Batman Who Laughs began to gradually deviate from the most attractive style of DC comics, the calm black humor style, and turned to the route of refreshing writing.

Therefore, Schiller does not have any good feelings towards this character. If he has to choose between Batman, the Joker and the Batman Who Laughs, Schiller would rather be surrounded by ten pairs of Jokers and Batman than encounter a Batman Who Laughs. This is not because of his extraordinary combat power and intelligence, but because he is really boring.

Schiller knew very well that once this kind of character with the attributes of the editor's father appeared in this universe, his peaceful life would be completely over. Although his current life could not be called very peaceful, at least the people around him were interesting.

Cobert's inferiority and arrogance were like twin vines, the reasons for the two personalities of Evans and their subsequent development, Alberto's emotional entanglement with the Godfather, Victor's unswerving love, etc. Even the clown Jack, who had no source and no clear background story, used a stage performance to tell Schiller that he was an interesting enough person.

The Laughing Bat may be very strong, but he is really boring, because everything he does is dark for the sake of darkness. There is no mention of any psychological struggle, black and white opposition, human stance and emotional changes. He is like a piece of paper that is thousands of kilometers long or even able to circle the earth. It may be very long, it may be a miracle, but it is still very thin.

If the villains around Schiller can add a little fun to his peaceful life, then the Laughing Bat is a pure disgusting person.

Soon after Schiller came to Gotham, he determined that this universe should be a member of the light multiverse, because the people here have the possibility of turning to the positive, while the dark multiverse is just the opposite, and everyone will eventually fall into the abyss.

Therefore, at the beginning, Schiller did not consider that the Laughing Bat might be born, because there were no conditions for his birth here. In addition to the fact that the universe here is biased towards light, the current timeline is too early. Batman has just finished his freshman year, and the Joker has only been on the stage for a few days. The two of them have only fought once, and the victim is still the Court of Owls who deserved it completely, and it didn't even affect too many onlookers.

Batman has not yet become the wise and suspicious master he is later, and the Joker has not used his genius creations to create all kinds of troubles for Batman. The two of them are far from being mortal enemies.

Perhaps it was Schiller's arrival that brought more order to the city, or perhaps the young Batman was supposed to be matched with a young Joker. In short, the brutal Joker who killed all villains and decent people in the origin story of the Laughing Bat is unlikely to appear, so the Batman who was tortured and killed the Joker is unlikely to appear.

This is Schiller's inference. Even if the Joker really appeared later, he did not waver in his judgment. He believed that there was no soil in this universe for the Laughing Bat to be produced.

But when Jack approached Schiller and told him that there might be a dangerous thing hidden in Batman's body, Schiller was still shaken.

The most critical point is that if there is a slight possibility that the thing Jack mentioned is the Laughing Bat, then who dares to bet that he is not?

When Jack said that he felt that something was hatching in Batman's heart, Schiller's alert value was pulled to the highest. No matter what, the Laughing Bat must not appear in this universe.

When Schiller doubted the Sandman because of his own situation, he had the urge to start a new project, that is, "How to reach the depths of people's hearts with the help of dreams."

This topic is not only to study how to find the Sandman, but also to dig out the possible dangerous thing that Jack said.

After obtaining clues about the immortality factor and successfully making crazy wine, the Joker and Schiller knew that they should take action.

At that time, Schiller and Mrs. Miller said that the Joker called his private phone to make an appointment, in fact, because they needed to confirm the next plan on the phone.

Everyone knows what happened afterwards. Schiller, who was drinking with the Joker in the clinic, deliberately asked the elevator manager to release the Joker Schiller who was still climbing the stairs, and had the first contact with the Joker Jack. Although the Joker Schiller's first reaction was to trick Jack into the room of Schiller's mind palace to go to jail for him, after failing, he also determined that this would be a good partner.

The next step is to put other people into his own thinking space, and then drag Hugo in to test the stability of the whole process, and finally dig down as planned to find the Sandman.

Let the Joker enter the dreamland, there is another more important reason, that is, to allow the Joker to borrow the dreamland from the dreamland and enter Batman's dream.

And digging deeper into Batman's dream, just as Jack expected, at the edge of Batman's dream, inside Bruce's body, there was indeed a monster that no one had ever seen.